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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1994

INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT HELPS BOOST PRODUCTIVITY

THAT

THE INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT EFFORTS ASSIST INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS IN HONG KONG TO STRIVE FOR GREATER PRODUCTIVITY, THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF INDUSTRY, MISS DENISE YUE,

TODAY (THURSDAY).

SAID

SPEAKING AT THE PRODUCTIVITY SHOWCASE

RECEPTION COCKTAIL

SAID ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL (HKPC), MISS YUE

HONG KONG'S PRODUCTIVITY DIRECTLY DETERMINED THE COMPETITIVENESS OF PRODUCTS IN THE GLOBAL MARKET.

"IT

WELL- IS

CONTINUED THUS NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT THE

DEPENDENT ON ITS BEING OF OUR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IS CRUCIALLY ABILITY TO ACHIEVE CONTINUOUS PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT," SHE SAID.

MISS YUE

SECTOR NOTED THAT HONG KONG'S MANUFACTURING ACHIEVED FRUITFUL RESULTS IN ITS PURSUIT OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH.

HAD

"PER CAPITA PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR GREW BY AN AVERAGE OF 10 PER CENT IN THE PERIOD OF 1986/92.

"

"PER CAPITA PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH LAST YEAR WAS EVEN HIGHER, REGISTERING SOME 12 PER CENT," SHE SAID.

"WITHOUT THIS SUSTAINED PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE FOR THE LOCAL MANUFACTURING SECTOR TO PRODUCE, REAL TERMS,

BUT 25 PER CENT MORE THAN IT DID SEVEN YEARS AGO, ONLY THREE-FIFTHS OF THE LABOUR FORCE THEN, SHE ADDED.

NOT

IN

WITH

MISS YUE CONGRATULATED THE HKPC FOR ORGANISING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE SHOWCASE WHICH FEATURED THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PAST WINNERS GOVERNOR'S AWARD FOR INDUSTRY IN THE PRODUCTIVITY CATEGORY AND OF HKPC PRODUCTIVITY AWARD OR CERTIFICATE OF MERIT.

THE

-

OVER SLACK.

PROVISIONAL FIGURES OF EXTERNAL TRADE FOR MARCH 1994

*

IN

MARCH TO BE

BOTH RE-EXPORTS AND IMPORTS RECORDED NOTABLE GROWTH THE SAME MONTH IN 1993, WHILE DOMESTIC EXPORTS CONTINUED

TRADE STATISTICS

THESE ARE SHOWN IN THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES OF EXTERNAL

AND CENSUS FOR MARCH RELEASED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE DEPARTMENT.

THE VALUE OF RE-EXPORTS, AT $71.1 BILLION IN MARCH, BILLION OR 12% HIGHER THAN A YEAR EARLIER.

WAS $7.7

THE VALUE OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS FELL BY $1.4 BILLION OR 8.2% OVER

A YEAR EARLIER TO $15.9 BILLION IN MARCH.

/TAKING RE-EXPORTS